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"When I got to Washington, my ambition was to be as influential as the ambassador from Norway, " a Polish diplomat at the time told me.

A British diplomat said the draft would be ready in the event of a serious attack on civilians by Libyan air power.

Then, it was a Palestinian assassination attempt on an Israeli diplomat in London.

As an easy-going leader, a resourceful diplomat and a talented man of action Premier Zhou Enlai has given great impression to hoteliers. Ms.

A senior U. S. diplomat concedes that these sorts of incidents "are not at all unlikely to occur" over the next weeks and months.

The UK expelled an Israeli diplomat as a result of the scandal, Miliband said. He did not name the diplomat or say what rank the envoy held.

In what one Western diplomat calls the Taliban's "madrassa, linear-thinking sort of way" this does not infuse talks with mutual trust.

You know, my English is not so good for me to be a diplomat, but it is pretty good.

But the corseted, wandering life of a diplomat's wife did not suit her and one son was schizophrenic.

The Times said the unit was on a covert mission to put the diplomat in touch with rebel leaders . Fox declined to comment on the report.

On Sunday Chinese diplomat State Councillor Dai Bingguo warned Tokyo to make a "wise political decision" over the matter.

Displeased with her opposition, Lenin relieved her of her responsibilities and sent her to Norway as a diplomat.

Instead, comments one EU diplomat, Mr Sarkozy seems to see Europe as a backdrop for his own bilateral deal-making.

As a diplomat, and Lou was a masterful one, he acts properly, as you will see by his next action.

Turkey's friends agree that as a seasoned diplomat with determinedly pro-Western views, Mr Gul would make a fine head of state.

In an interview with The Atlantic magazine, the top U. S. diplomat accused China "of trying to stop history, which is a fool's errand. "

"We strongly believe that it should happen, " said the diplomat, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.

My advice to any diplomat who wants to have goos press is to have two or three kids and a dog.

But candidates need not have been judges at home; one Japanese member of the court has been a law professor and diplomat.

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip.

A diplomat is a man who can convince his wife that she looks stout in a mink coat.

A foreign diplomat who had come to say good-by noticed among the air-borne generals great piles of household furniture including one piano.

He deferred to the TSA on whether the diplomat was appropriately handled but said he thought normal procedure had been followed.

The result is, as one Western diplomat puts it, "a government in full conciliation mode" , firmly on the back foot.

An American diplomat believes it is still "trying to decide what its foreign policy in the 21st century should look like" .

I suggested that he was goading me to see whether an intoxicated diplomat could keep his numbers straight.

In 1970's "Le Genou de Claire" ( "Claire's Knee" ), a diplomat is overwhelmed by his desire to stroke the knee of a teenage girl he meets.

The veteran diplomat said he and his Chinese counterparts also discussed Myanmar, another reclusive neighbor of China.

Madame Chiang Kai-shek was a diplomat par excellence. But she was not familiar with Japanese history.

An Afghan diplomat was at a shopping mall in Doha recently and heard a child call out in Pashto, the language used by most Taliban.

It's her first trip to Jerusalem as our top diplomat and she talked just a short time ago about the creation of a Palestinian State.

"We are going to see a lot more Poland and a lot less presidency, " says one diplomat.

"Okay, Mr Barber, " said the US diplomat, "We're gonna burn those jeans for you. "

On balance, said one EU diplomat, the first few days after the declaration had been "so far, so good" .

A week later, a top North Korean diplomat travelled to New York for talks with Washington's top official on North Korean affairs.

Santiago Cabrera, born to a Chilean diplomat, did not originally plan to become an actor.

That sort of defeats are only stepping-stones. --W. Reid. American journalist and diplomat.

Police say the U. S. diplomat was at a traffic signal when two men on a motorcycle fired shots at his vehicle.

"A century later, his grandson will return to China as America's top diplomat, " Obama said at the time of his nomination.

She was a diplomat, someone who represented the U. S. government in Afghanistan.

Prebisch was more of a policymaker and economic diplomat than a theorist.

Rudd's knowledge of the language and a stint as a diplomat in Beijing do not necessarily lead to admiration for China's government.

The United States says Davis acted in self-defense and is a diplomat who should be released immediately under international conventions.

Asked whether any discussion papers had been produced to assist their debate, one national diplomat rolls his eyes.

They got the resolution, and I remember asking a U. S. diplomat which country had been most helpful in getting the resolution passed.

one Japanese member of the court has been a law professor and diplomat.

Pyongyang's latest statement did not require any action by the council, the diplomat said.

"Poland will be a great asset; before, she was a liability, " beams one European diplomat.

The Chinese diplomat was trying to create good relations with the U. S.

Sylvia and I were traveling with our father, Chester Ronning, who had been a Canadian diplomat in China.

That was the origin of the thing that became Independent Diplomat , the world's first diplomatic advisory group and a non- profit to boot .

Euro-zone leaders are likely to hold a special summit Friday to discuss ways to help Greece, a European Union diplomat said.

This is also shrewd: the poor do not care about his achievements as a diplomat and globaliser, which scarcely impinge on their lives.

So as a diplomat, I will try to get all the separate families reunited and shorten the distance between the hearts of two peoples.

Eighty remaining books were given to the American diplomat Albert Aronson by his Soviet hosts.

She was hired by a Saudi diplomat directly from the Philippines to work in London .

He later ordered an acid attack on the bouncer and was denied legal immunity though the Libyan Embassy accredited him as a diplomat.

The U. S. dispatched a senior U. S. diplomat to China last week for talks aimed at resolving issues between the two superpowers, but Mr.

"She may not have known herself what she was going to have to do the next day, " an EU diplomat said.

It is a role that requires him to be a diplomat, intermediary, taskmaster and spokesman.

Our dear Prime Minister Zhou was a great diplomat. I admire him very much and have made up my mind to catch up with him.

"Let's just say right now, it would be a relatively easy thing to load this quickly onto aircraft, " said one Western diplomat.

The ministry also called for a meeting with a Japanese diplomat over the embargo on Korean Air.

One retired Egyptian diplomat, speaking unattributably, puts the size of his own country's internal-security apparatus at about 2m people.

My grandfather had been a diplomat assigned to China, so I heard lots of stories about China when I was very young.

The diplomat offered no evidence for his assertions, which were also dismissed by the White House.

"Impossible! " a senior Chinese diplomat laughs. "China is now far too powerful to be contained. "

'There's a certain code of conduct that has to be observed' in the treatment of foreign diplomats in the U. S. , the unnamed diplomat said.

I was a single British diplomat in New York City; you can imagine what that might have meant.

It may even help that the new White House envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan , is a low-profile former diplomat.

A British diplomat says sourly: "The delegation to Tripoli led by Jacob Zuma looked like a state visit from Tyrants Inc. "

But David Bosco believes her personality would not define her if she became the top American diplomat.

"Nothing I said during this interview broke new ground, " the diplomat told CNN.

Overall the book reveals Mr Zhu as an outstanding political leader and a skillful diplomat.

The United States' top diplomat has concluded a peace mission to Israel and the Palestinian territories. But she has little to show for it.

None of this, the top Vietnamese diplomat insisted, is intended to counter China.

Marry used to be a diplomat, but now she works in a company.

Huang studied to be a diplomat. Then he worked in the travel business. Finally he found his metier: football punditry.

Colleagues used to call methe designing diplomat.

As a diplomat, I admire you for having such an extraordinary and historical opportunity in your diplomatic career.

Mary used to be a diplomat, but now she works in a company.

"He has the credibility of someone who has really gone through the whole system, " said the diplomat.

"He sounds like an Israeli diplomat sometimes, " says Nabil Shaath, a senior Palestinian negotiator.

Christopher Hill will not be the only senior U. S. diplomat working the issue in the days ahead.

The special representative for North Korea policy, Stephen W. Bosworth, is a well-regarded diplomat and a former ambassador to South Korea.

At the same time, a senior U. S. diplomat discouraged the notion Hill was ready to propose softer inspection terms.

That's the building where ambassador, the diplomat represents the United States and other countries and his or her staff work.

Q: A Chinese diplomat was asked about whether China would be interested in providing support to the NATO war effort in Afghanistan.

My most recent encounter with a diplomat, however, was when I took a potential client out to dinner.

Briber: bribing now unlocks a new trait chain that nudges the diplomat into becoming very good at it.

Next month, the top U. S. commander and diplomat in Iraq will come to Washington to present their latest assessments to the president.

"This will be a very particular Security Council with lots of big countries, " said a diplomat from one of the permanent powers.

A diplomat laments that the place has been as good as leaderless for more than two years, as politicians fail to agree on how to run things.

"This was an election in name only, " says a Western diplomat.

Foreigners have also been abducted, including a Polish engineer, an Iranian diplomat, and a Canadian journalist.

'Susan Rice didn't want a Rwanda on her hands, ' said a senior Arab diplomat deeply involved in the negotiations.

The British "underestimated the capacity of the EPP and the PES to make their deal stick, " says one diplomat.

He could have come as a diplomat. He knew what the risk were. He deserver everything he gets!

"There was a time when they wouldn't do this, when the rule of law meant something, " sighs a Western diplomat in Bangkok.

"You can't accomplish what you want to accomplish" with such an impersonal style, the diplomat said.

As a young man, he worked as private secretary to Sir William Temple, a retired Whig diplomat, at Moor Park in southern England.

"The Chinese leadership has therefore not had the opportunity for a full reconsideration of its policy on Iran, " the diplomat said.

and the tart remark of an Icelandic diplomat who described his own president as "unpredictable" .

U. S. officials met twice last week with a ranking North Korean diplomat who was given special permission to visit New York and San Diego.

Russia has lately decided to expel a US diplomat from its land, declaring he has done something improper.

He was also a leading writer and printer, political thinker, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist and diplomat.

A: Mr. Chernomyrdin was an outstanding politician and diplomat of Russia and also a good friend of the Chinese people.

The EU's top diplomat is to visit East Africa at the start of a tour aimed at curbing piracy off Somalia's coast.

The United States and China, at diplomat level, have traded barbs over the Doha stalemate in recent days.

A diplomat went to see U. S. President Lincoln, and found out that the great man was polishing his shoes.

Yet his rich experience as a diplomat and exile made him GO beyond the theme of love.

Israel may throw out a British diplomat but the row is unlikely to go much further.

general who was a Soviet spy in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s under "legal" cover as a diplomat and Radio Moscow correspondent.

In my freshman's and sophomore's years, I was a tutor for an American diplomat's child who was quite satisfied with my teaching.

Crowley said that on one occasion, reflecting foreign worry about privacy, a US diplomat was asked to leave a notebook outside the meeting.

Now the seasoned diplomat Marc Grossman is in charge and has received co-operation from all parts of the government, especially Mr Obama.

A senior Western diplomat calls this "a real opportunity for Nigeria to kick itself into a new sphere" .

And Independent Diplomat is a kind of example of this in a sort of loose way.

Kiesling was the first diplomat to go public with his dissent, publishing his resignation letter to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell.

The centrepiece was a magnificent canopied bed that once belonged to Talleyrand, the great 19th-century French diplomat.

It has been "increasingly clear, " a Western diplomat said Friday, that "the army will not go down with Mubarak. "

Iran accused the United States of being behind the Feb. 4 kidnapping of the diplomat, Jalal Sharafi, who returned to Tehran on Tuesday. U.

Can be a diplomat, or is it has always been my dream to go abroad, I think is more advantageous to realize my dream.

Laurence Pope is a retired U. S. diplomat and former political advisor at the U. S Central Command.

British diplomat who sought German assistance in the Irish nationalist cause during World War I and was executed for treason.

Trickery is not the path of wisdom but of disaster for a diplomat.

He's a U. S. diplomat assigned to the embassy in London.

"My Princess" is about a romantic comedy love story between a diplomat (Song Seung Heon) and a female college student (Kim Tae Hee).

The Chinese awardees included an agronomist , a military commander , a scholar, a diplomat, a reporter, a doctor and a few entrepreneurs .

A consulate spokesman said Yu's rear license plate had been stolen, but the diplomat thought having a front plate was enough.

A western diplomat with access to intelligence in Islamabad explains the limitations of a hi-tech manhunt.

In a recent WikiLeak, a US diplomat actually branded Pakistan's intelligence service, ISI, "a terrorist organization. "

"The reality is Lisbon has not entered into force, " said a diplomat. "Blair has yet to say whether he will stand. "

When government, business and NGOs work together, everyone can be a diplomat, he argues.

He was a poet, diplomat, songwriter, and anthologist (compiler) of African American culture.

Harry Kessler was a leading cultural figure, author, diplomat and politician, whose diaries span 56 of the most tumultuous years in history.

In an interview, one U. S. diplomat in Warsaw simply implored, "Don't talk to me about visas. "

Nirupama Rao, India's top diplomat talks about contradictions having to be "managed" between two rising Asian powers.

Christopher Hill, a senior American diplomat, visited North Korea to try to rescue a deal on denuclearisation.

"Entirely plausible" , says a western diplomat in Cairo, as he sips his coffee.

"Madoff was fraud. We think crime is a matter for supervisors and the police, " says a diplomat.

But if the economic straitjacket stays tight, says a senior European diplomat, "in the long term I think the situation will be disastrous. "

The Danish mission is located in a wealthy area of Islamabad that includes diplomat residences and foreign organizations.

A former Japanese diplomat has called on his countrymen to curb their cravings for endangered fish that are served up as sushi .

Please I and my little sister seek for your help to get in contact with the Diplomat.

The kidnappers ambushed the diplomat's car in a residential area of the troubled city and killed his Afghan driver.

A French diplomat in New York failed to secure a visa for his gay partner, despite their marriage-like pacte civil.

Han Solo, retired General and diplomat from the New Republic, was the Grand Marshal for the 93rd Blockade Runners Derby.

A growing number of Chinese citizens were entering the European Union on Taiwanese passports, a foreign diplomat said in Taipei.

Can India learn anything more about its neighbor from a diplomat who has closely watched the country over the last 40 years?

'I think the U. S. realized that it could be left behind, ' said a French diplomat.

As soon as he left his table, a foreign diplomat grabbed his chopsticks as a historical souvenir.

Bryce: British diplomat and historian whose american Commonwealth (1888) is a classic study of government and politics.

In a online statement kidnappers threaten to kill Egypt's top diplomat in Iraq, saying his country has allied with Jews and Christians.

"One day, we might well look back on this as the perestroika moment" , says a Western diplomat in Havana.

"The credible threat of further pressure does create some leverage over the Iranian system, " a western diplomat said.

"China is a very promising market, a very promising growth center, " said Hitoshi Tanaka, a former senior Japanese diplomat.

A born diplomat, you dislike discord so much that you will go out of your way to make others feel comfortable and at ease.

And, as a senior EU official put it briskly to a Chinese diplomat, 'Europe has fewer government-owned companies than China.

"It's so sad what has happened to that country, " one prominent Singaporean diplomat told me recently.

'If Iran says 'yes, ' that would be great, ' said a European diplomat working on Iran. 'If not, we think they'll be more isolated. '

He is a US diplomat assigned to the embassy in London.

"We do not consider that we are breaching our principles, " said one diplomat.

It can be a delicate process, but American diplomat Ralph Bunche had a knack for negotiation, along with excellent training and experience.

An unnamed senior Polish diplomat told "European observers' website confirmed the news interview. "

A rather precise taxonomy is offered by Robert Cooper, a British diplomat and Eurocrat, in his book, "The Breaking of Nations" .

Indeed, as the same Western diplomat points out, all Mr Bashir's recent promises to reform his ways are, as usual, "easily reversible" .

The officials fell all over the foreign diplomat.

China and her People: Being the Observations, Reminiscences, and Conclusions of an American Diplomat.

This book should be required reading for every U. S. diplomat who has to deal with North Korean officials.

After graduation he was appointed to the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs as a cadet diplomat.

American diplomat made the statement at the end of meetings with Pakistani officials, politicians and military commanders.

His career as diplomat, mediator, educator, writer, social theorist, and political leader began after his education at Harvard University.

'We knew we needed the U. S. in order for any military action to work, ' said a French diplomat.

Democratic officials have indicated that the former first lady is on Mr. Obama's list of candidates for the top U. S. diplomat post.

Yet in recent years the role of the world's chief diplomat has grown; some even regard the secretary-general as a "secular pope" .

A Yemeni diplomat said Mr. Saleh has burns on his face, chest and back and will likely need months to recover.

But, an ASEAN diplomat sniffs, Indonesia should keep its own ambitions in check, lest the tables are turned in future.

I derived impetus from an in-depth report, in which a diplomat from a deprived background despised adversity and rose from desperation.

The last independent MPs vanished from Russia's Duma in December 2007 - after what one western diplomat dubbed a "manicured" election.

The top Egyptian diplomat added he doesn't understand why Israel is insisting on continuing construction of the so-called security fence.

The U. S. top diplomat is also expected to visit flood ravaged areas in Thailand and meet with Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.

EU diplomat Solana and Jalili had what a European spokesman described as an inconclusive telephone discussion Monday .

And a south Korea newspaper (calls)quotes a north Korea diplomat as saying the same thing.

Stephen Bosworth, a distinguished scholar and moderate diplomat, was appointed principal negotiator.

"They keep kicking the can down the road, but the can is getting heavier, " comments one high-level diplomat.

European diplomat said he heard the governor had been in Switzerland and had abandoned the regime.

"The appeal only came after Richardson had already conveyed the message, " said a Seoul diplomat.

European Union chief diplomat Javier Solana spoke by telephone with Georgian President Saakashvili and expressed his concern.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Yet it still "serves as a useful and efficient confidence-building tool, " the Hungarian diplomat said.

But Holbrooke will leave behind more than a formidable record as a prominent American diplomat.

A diplomat must be very tactful.

"We're also strong on the human-rights front, " an Australian diplomat says in defence. "But there's stuff to be done in the meantime. "

The day after its election, it proposed to include an EU diplomat in its delegation to the Security Council.

Was Russian prisoner No. 7 actually the 'dead' diplomat who saved thousands of Jews during the Holocaust?

A senior diplomat argues, for instance, that "rhetoric which excludes Russia pushes it in the wrong direction" .

"It may be today or later in the week, " said one diplomat from a leading developing country.

This brave and dedicated explorer and diplomat has made a permanent mark on the history of Sino-foreign cultural exchange.

We would strongly oppose any proposal for diplomat [sic] endgame in which Iran is permitted to continue these activities in any form.

Ambassador Hill, the leading U. S. diplomat to the six-party talks, says the ultimate goal of the negotiations is clear.

Now one is to be president: Dalia Grybauskaite, who easily won the election on May 17th, is a former diplomat and finance minister.

An Iranian diplomat in New York denied North Korea has helped Tehran develop long-range missiles, declining to comment further.

That is because Richard Holbrooke, the American diplomat who brokered the Dayton deal, is now America's special envoy for Afghanistan.

A diplomat in reporting on negotiations with diplomats from different countries may say they "touched all bases" during many hours of talks.

"This has undermined the political foundations of Sino-French and Sino-European ties, " the report quoted He as telling the French diplomat.

Her father, Ra'ad A. Siraj, grew up as the son of a Saudi diplomat, and Makarechian lived in Iran until she was a teenager.

"We are at a very precarious juncture, " a senior Chinese diplomat in Brussels told me recently.

I expected my entire life to be a diplomat, to be serving my country.

Article 20 Where a diplomat stationed abroad is demoted or dismissed, his rank shall be lowered in accordance with the relevant provisions.

The Swiss diplomat entered briskly, a decent, sad little man, with a red tuft of chin beard.

Irina Bokova, 58, a Bulgarian career diplomat and ambassador to Paris was briefly foreign minister and a vice presidential candidate.

There is a feeling that in the isthmus, aid delivers "more bang for your buck" than in Mexico or Colombia, one diplomat suggests.

The outpouring of international goodwill "has changed everything, " says a senior Western diplomat based in Beijing.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has formally announced that he is seeking a second five-year term as the world's top diplomat.

This was followed in July by another visit to Benghazi by a senior Chinese diplomat.

Article 19 A diplomat stationed abroad shall not be promoted in either post or rank when he is given a sanction during his stay abroad.

Huang Zunxian was a prominent political activist, reformatory thinker, diplomat and poet in modern China.

"Abdullah appears to be genuinely worried about the situation, " says a foreign diplomat in Kuala Lumpur.

Police say the diplomat's bodyguard - a Sudanese national who was wounded in the assault - later died at a Baghdad hospital.

Reconciliation needs a new government and parliament, not a caretaker government, says one diplomat.

Before leaving, the diplomat reapplied for his passport because his former one was invalid.

One western diplomat says, "I was pleasantly surprised that Iraq merely abstained on Syrian sanctions. I thought they would vote against. "

A team of younger, zealous reformers, dubbed "the seven samurai" by one diplomat, was brought in to overhaul the economy.

"The military option is the last thing that we need to do and it will not be used easily, " said a Western diplomat in Tel Aviv.

One Turkish diplomat told the BBC that that was tantamount to the EU saying that it wanted to remain an exclusively Christian club.

"It was a dialogue of the deaf, " said one diplomat.

His job as a diplomat was a blind for his spying.

One diplomat notes that EU enlargement is not in good shape: many countries want to halt the process after Croatia (and perhaps Iceland).

Independent Diplomat ended up advising three successive Kosovo prime ministers and the multi-party negotiation team of Kosovo.

Shortly before the tournament started, I was discussing the rising tensions between Israel and Iran with a senior diplomat.

She also fell in love with an impecunious British diplomat, who was rejected by her father.

NATO involvement in military action was possible, depending on the outcome in the Security Council, a European diplomat said.

To a former Thai diplomat, however, he is "a stout man with glasses and teeth covered in red spots from betel nut" .

A diplomat, Samaranch started his career as Municipal Councillor responsible for sport in the City of Barcelona.

The Shabab, says Johnnie Carson, America's top diplomat for Africa, is "a threat to all of Somalia's regional neighbours" .

Militants fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the cars. One British diplomat and two bystanders were injured.

back home, the former diplomat's tendency to duck awkward questions won him the nickname "the slippery eel" .

One US diplomat said: "We've done everything we possibly can to facilitate the final resolution of the BDA issue. "

However, although he taught people hypocrisy, he was actually a thinker and diplomat with political honesty.

Some Somalis complained that foreign fighters were given more privileges and pay than locals, said a Western diplomat.

He studied at the Foreign Affairs University in Beijing, intending to become a diplomat.

My Chinese guidebook, written by a retired diplomat, said it once was described as the Mecca of the Chinese people.

His main challenger, Irakly Alasania, a young and respected former diplomat, received less than 20%.

In practice, says a diplomat, everyone knows that "the entire Russian mission is [staffed by] spies" .

Independent Diplomat is part of a trend which is emerging and evident across the world , which is that the world is fragmenting .

"They are in a very difficult situation, " one diplomat said of Baroness Ashton and her staff.

A high ranking US diplomat was among the officials at talks on Iran's nuclear program.

Li: As a famous sinologist and a diplomat with wide range of experience, you have a thorough understanding of both sides' culture.

The Dayton peace accords, signed that December, sealed Mr Holbrooke's fame as a diplomat.